Could Abraham Lincoln really have sidestepped the entire American Civil War by using the government's power of...
History
Burt Likko celebrates the history of a city that seems all too frequently to act as though...
Kyle notes some fallacious reasoning on the part of Reza Aslan.
… that Mississippi didn’t ratify the slavery-banning 13th Amendment until 1995, that after they did no one...
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Guns In America. You can read the...
~by Jonathan McLeod I was 13. I couldn’t fathom that my sister’s life could be worth any...
Ta-Nehisi has pushed once again into the abortion and slavery debate, this time following the invocation of...
Note: I hope I’m not boring everyone with these digressions into the history of the Crusades, but...
by Christopher Carr Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman’s existence in the popular consciousness largely rests on...
Jason has just given you the liberal-libertarian disposition, so I thought I’d try my hand at explaining...
I aggregate so you don’t have to: From The Dreyfus Affair to the Eiffel Tower, the conflict...
An interesting (and accessible) interview with historian Simon Young.
This isn’t particularly new or exciting, but I recently stumbled across this fascinating article from Jared Diamond...
A bunch of interesting stuff has been floating around the Internet this month. My favorites:
~by jfxgillis Okay. So here’s the thing about the health care industry in the USA, especially the insurance sector....
The Tudors is a bad show. I’m a sucker for historical drama, but after slogging through the...
Sometimes I’m overwhelmed with this sense that all of this is an exercise in futility – that...
